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CADI work packages

Work package I

Responsible parties: Michael Succow Foundation, FAO-Subregional Office for Central Asia

Output:

Evidence-based knowledge on ecosystem services, biodiversity, conservation status, and land-use of cold winter deserts is available, applied, and disseminated.

Activities:

  1. Provision of a CADI fellowship program for post-graduate scientists from Central Asia.
  2. Adapting FAO’s methodological approach of an integrated RS-based inventory (Open Foris, Collect Earth) for dryland pastures and forests in temperate deserts of Central Asia to assess land-uses and degradation for a pilot site in Uzbekistan
  3. Exemplary valuation of natural resource assets (pastures, wood) and ecosystem services (PES) in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
  4. Preparation of a spatial analysis of conservation potential in temperate deserts of Central Asia
  5. Preparation of a virtual herbarium and e-flora
  6. Biodiversity expeditions to update baseline data of populations and distribution as well as trends of endemic species
  7. Development of an exemplary biodiversity monitoring concept for temperate desert biomes
  8. Development of target-specific communication strategy and material for integrated, sustainable natural resource management and nature conservation
Work package II

Responsible parties: Michael Succow Foundation, FAO-Subregional Office for Central Asia

Output:

Multi-stakeholder-based sustainable land management for desert biomes is introduced in the partner countries.

Activities:

  1. Reviewing the framework for Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) and identifying challenges and opportunities in all partner countries
  2. Land-use mapping through the collection of ecological and social aspects of pastoralism, firewood usage, and carrying capacities
  3. Vulnerability analysis, risk assessment and acquiring site condition parameters as well as research for development in INRM for the pilot regions in the project (MARISCO)
  4. Establishment of local project partnerships in selected pilot areas (in Uzbekistan), including pastures, with exemplary investments
  5. Developing an exemplary INRM co-management agreement and alternative income concepts (incl. business plans) as well as exemplary lease-agreements for pilot areas with at least two local land-users
  6. Establishing best-practices and approaches for climate-adapted & biodiversity-friendly INRM in temperate deserts through Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and improvement of water resource management through construction and restoration of wells/watering holes in pilot sites (in Uzbekistan)
  7. Supporting national authorities in Uzbekistan for registering of a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action Project Idea Note (NAMA PIN) for Saxaul (Haloxylon spec.) vegetation of the temperate deserts
Work package III

Responsible party: Michael Succow Foundation

Output:

Conditions for improved management and establishment of protected areas in the desert biome are created and measures are actively promoted.

Activities:

  1. Elaborating justifications for at least two protected areas (establishment, expansion or IUCN status adjustment) in the desert biome in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
  2. Improving management effectiveness of at least two existing protected area in the desert biome (in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan) through development and adjustment of a) zonation; b) management plans; and c) environmental education concepts as well as training of protected area staff
  3. Investing in infrastructure and equipment of at least two existing protected areas
  4. Preparing a UNESCO World Heritage site (Natural/Cultural) nomination for an area of the temperate deserts in Central Asia
Work package IV

Responsible party: Michael Succow Foundation, FAO-Subregional Office for Central Asia

Output:

Key actors in the region develop a joint vision for conservation and sustainable use of temperate deserts in Central Asia, communicate this vision at the national and international level, and establish networks.

Activities:

  1. Conduct one workshop per country on Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
  2. Awareness-raising for decision-makers and extension of national politics agenda for Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) in deserts
  3. Establishing a CADI interim secretariat, moderating the dialogue between individual focal points of each Rio Convention (UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCCC)
  4. Organizing project-specific side events on CADI at UNCCD COP 2017, UNCBD COP 2018 and UNFCCC COP 2019 and, there, present CADI strategy
  5. Organizing a regional conference on conservation and sustainable use of arid areas in Central Asia
  6. Backstopping the process to establish CADI between partner countries and develop a joint program of work, including review of current situation and study on sustainable funding options for CADI secretariat
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News & Events

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Universität Greifswald
Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie /
University of Greifswald
Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology
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D-17489 Greifswald

Projektleitung / Project Leader:
Dr. Michael Manthey
Phone: +49 3834 420 4128
manthey [at] uni-greifswald.de

Projektkoordination / Project Coordinator:
Christian Welscher
Phone: +49 3834 420 4120
christian.welscher [at] uni-greifswald.de

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